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To Those Who've Fail'd.

TO THOSE WHO'VE FAIL'D.

To those who've fail'd, in aspiration vast, To unnam'd soldiers fallen in front on the lead, To calm, devoted engineers—to over-ardent travelers—to pilots  
 on their ships,
To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I'd rear  
 a laurel-cover'd monument,
High, high above the rest—To all cut off before their time, Possess'd by some strange spirit of fire, Quench'd by an early death.
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